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Extensive collection of personal correspondence documenting his life and official activities in both Tasmania and Western Australia, and subjects including: honours; industrial development in Tasmania; Australian political leaders; the 1917 conscription referendum; Federal-State relations; possible abolition of State Governors; and the visit of the Prince of Wales to Australia in 1920. Correspondents include Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Lord Forster, Lord Stamfordham, L.S. Amery, Sir William Irvine, Sir Arthur Stanley, Lord Stradbroke, Sir Walter Davidson, Sir Henry Galway, Sir Elliott Lewis and Sir James Mitchell.